Varun Grover
Varun Grover is an Indian filmmaker whose work as a screenwriter, director, actor, lyricist, and comedian places him across an unusually wide stretch of creative practice.
Born on January 26, 1980, in Sundar Nagar, Grover grew up to pursue a professional life that resists easy categorization. Rather than anchoring himself to a single discipline, he has worked simultaneously as a film screenwriter, a filmmaker in the broader directorial sense, a film actor, a lyricist, and a stand-up comedian. That range is not incidental — each role carries its own set of demands, and his career reflects a sustained willingness to move between them rather than consolidate around one.
His work as a lyricist sits alongside his output as a screenwriter and filmmaker, and his practice in comedy runs as a parallel current through the same years. The Library of Congress catalogs him under the authorized label "Grover, Varun, 1980-," a designation that reflects the breadth of formats to which his name is attached across the public record.
Quotes by Varun Grover
When a new government comes, even the detractors want to give them a chance because they have been voted in by the people of the country.
British comedian Imran Yusuf is fantastic and so is Shazia Mirza, also London-based.
If you start imagining an audience for yourself, you don't do justice to the job. You fall into that trap of a self-image.
In general, even when I'm not doing political comedy, I want to be clever and find the least confrontational way to say the most offensive things.
I don't understand why people who have the most power, say people like Amitabh Bachchan, are silent on most issues.
I've stopped many things such as healthy eating. What's the point? In this post-truth era, I feel increasingly powerless.
I'm okay with anybody interpreting my work anyway because I don't take it seriously.
I am Hindu, upper-caste, male, and able-bodied. So everything is on my side. That gives me the extra cushion that Swara Bhaskar won't get.